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Quotes About Focus

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.
~ Paullina Simons
You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.
~ Pete Seeger
One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.
~ Peter Drucker
Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.
~ Peter Drucker
When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.
~ Peter Jacobson
Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.
~ Phil Cousineau
I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses."
~ Unknown
Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.
~ Philip Pearlstein
I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.
~ Philip Roth
The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
~ Og Mandino
I would describe myself as a hard worker, very humble and focused on whatever it is that I put my mind to.
~ Rahki
Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love.
~ Rajneesh
It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.
~ Randall Wright
Complaining does not work as a strategy.
~ Randy Pausch
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
~ Randy Wayne White
I am definitively qualitative about work.
~ Rashida Jones
The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.
~ Ray Lewis
It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well.
~ Ray Nitschke
I try to focus on practice. This is work time. This is where we work, this is our office. I try not to let it distract me too much.
~ Reggie Bush
He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.
~ Richard Hamming
I work every single day, even on Sundays.
~ Rico Love
I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it.
~ Ridley Scott
I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man.
~ Rob Ford
It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.
~ Rob Lowe